Thanks for that clear explanation Mark. Your method sounds like exactly what I'm looking for. As far as the license, should I start by checking out the Creative Commons license?
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:52 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Richard- > > Sunday, January 4, 2015, 5:21:36 PM, you wrote: > > > Once you've sold it, any open source license lets that person > redistribute > > freely. > > While I should know better than to argue legal matters with a lawyer... > You're wrong about that. > > The situation you're describing here and in your paper (I *did* skim > it... note that it's a dozen years old now and things haven't kept > still) is more akin to a viral license, and is the main objection > raised to using something like one of the GPL variants. > > What I do for open-source licensing for PowerDebug and PowerTools is > distribute an unlocked stack. People still have to purchase the stack > from my website and download it from there using their registration > code, but they are free to examine the code, modify it, learn from it > (ha!), amuse themselves, without restriction. They also don't get > updates without downloading them from the website, again using their > registration code. The right to distribute it themselves in any form, > modified or no, is explicitly denied by the license. > > This is open source software but not free software (in either sense of > the term). > > It's similar in one sense to music or video distribution - when you > buy media it's not locked up so that you can't get to it... you get > the right to listen or view yourself, but you don't get the right to > distribute it to others, in spite of the fact that it's technically > possible to do so. > > Creative Commons offers something similar in various forms of their > licensing agreements. You can choose what restrictions, if any, you > want to place on the documents you distribute. > > -- > -Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National > Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not > consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any > related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, > disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received > this communication in error, please delete it immediately. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
